The Great and Secret Knowledge

Jeff Richardson
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  • Science Fiction
  • Updated Biweekly

A speculative fiction podcast by Jeff Richardson and friends, in which they dive deeply into the text of a variety of stories from all manner of different media.

  1. Jun 23

    BoJack Horseman Season One Episode 1 "The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One" with Jessie Rye

    Jessie and Jeff tackle this incredible, ground-breaking television show! BoJack Horseman is so real and so silly all at the same time. We think you'll love it!   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show)   James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram   Jessie Rye @kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky Possible Show Titles Addiction is a Health Issue, Not a Crime Kicked in the Snatch Talk About Streaming This Guy's Got Mahernergy Recommendations Heated Rivalry Dude Cinema Maintenance Phase Biggest Loser Documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers What Jenny Did The Investigation of Lucy Letby Louis Theroux: Into the Manosphere Project Hail Mary Links South Park King of the Hill Family Guy The Simpsons Full House Entourage Family Ties Family Matters? (not the correct show) America's Funniest Home Videos Australia's Funniest Home Videos Trainspotting Charlie Rose scandal #MeToo Arrested Development Sex and the City Seinfeld Strangers With Candy  Game of Thrones A Song of Ice and Fire Outlander Helen Reddy Axis of Awesome Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Breaking Bad Westworld The Brady Bunch Co-narcissism aka Charlie Sheen Everything Everywhere All at Once Futurama Barbie Stranger Than Fiction Snapped Hatchet job

    1h 45m

  2. Jun 15

    Remembering Doctor Who with Jessie Rye

    Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!    https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show) James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk     Social Media   Jeff Richardson @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram   Jessie Rye   @kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky Possible Show Titles   I'm Not Okay The Great and Secret Knowledge Airs Their Feelings Beautifully Triggering That's Not How We Do Things Here! I Hate the Not-Knowing Recommendations   To the Stars (George Takei's autobiography) Riot Women Heated Rivalry Glitter+  And Just Like Scat... Links   Secret Diary of a Call Girl I Hate Suzie The Princess Bride Fleabag Years and Years Queer as Folk It's a Sin The Kill Your Gays trope The Writer's Tale Parks and Recreation The Chronicles of Narnia Star Trek (2009) Star Trek: Discovery What Went Wrong The Wizard of Oz (1939) Black Mirror Schindler's List The Prince of Tides Skins Game of Thrones Press Gang Outlander Gentleman Jack Mercator projection Burke and Wills First Nations Australians The Nullarbor Plain

    1h 17m

  3. Jun 14

    Star Trek: TNG Season Two Episode 8 "A Matter of Honor" with Sofia

    In this exciting episode, Jeff and Sofia dig in to one of the coolest episodes of Trek we've watched in the first two seasons! It's A Matter of Honor, baby, and boy is it fun! Get off my ship!   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show)   James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram Possible Show Titles A Low Level Crank Baby's First Racism Mandela Effect Situation Recommendations The Duras Sisters Podcast Les Misérables Abaddon's Gate Children of Men Black Mirror Star Trek episode Starship Tempest Links Bamse Voyenture Time Star Trek: Voyager Coloration of space imagery Little Black Sambo The US-Iran War (2026) Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Diaspora Knives Out Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Hunt for Red October [edit: it's Crimson Tide] The Viking warrior's legendary desire to die in battle The samurai idea of laying down their lives for honor Spartacus (though Jeff might have been thinking of Gladiator) Mandela effect Ted Lasso Homicide: Life on the Street Quantum Leap Alfred Hitchcock Presents Twilight Zone Doctor Who Fallout (TV show) Silo The Road The Gate of Ivrel The Pandora Principle Foreigner

    1h 50m

  4. Jun 8

    Doctor Who Series 14 Episodes 5-8 "The Hand of Fear" with James Lark

    The great man returns to talk about this remarkable series! Classic Doctor Who took Jeff from a fan to a freak and it can do it for you too! Watch this awesome serial and find out what this show is all about. You'll be happy you did! PS The great man in question is the inimitable, logitical, and musicritical James Lark, composer and podcaster and all-round proper chap. Careful folks, this episode will learn you some real deep lore, so be warned!   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show) James's podcast Neurotic Literature James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastadon   James Lark   @JamesLark on twitter @works of Lark on Instagram   Possible Show Titles Surprisingly Horny I'm Touching the Old John Thomas Always Birddoggin' Chicks Degrees of Hugeness It Really Looks Like a Good Time Talking Bobbins A Pretty Vague Measurement of Time Just How Many Kings Have They Launched Into Space? It's a Short Hand This is Fine Mile High Island? Deep Down Carter Was a Murderer Fanwank It's Utterly Naff This is What You're Taking With You? So Many Webs Awful Person, But Great Babysitter Recommendations Les Misérables Small Prophets Links School Spirits Strangeness in Space Ace Odyssey A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife The Bartimaeus Trilogy Wheel of Time LEGO Coronation Street The Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager) Superman 2 Superman Alien old time scifi story with aliens implanting eggs in humans British government in the mid-70s House of Cards Strictly Come Hamster: Season Fourteen Doomwatch Chernobyl Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation Atari 2600 Avengers The Office Detectorists The Epstein Files (it's possible it isn't the worst thing we've ever linked to, but we don't want to do any more research than we have to)

    2h 20m

  5. Jun 7

    A Bit of Sizzle from Jeff on Oh Boy: A Time Travel Podcast

    This is a little teaser for Jeff's appearance on the excellent podcast that inspired the development of our own, Oh Boy: A Time Travel Podcast!   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show)   James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram

    10 min

  6. Jun 2

    Star Trek: TNG Season Two Episode 7 "Unnatural Selection" with Sofia

    In this one, Sofia and Jeff discuss a very odd and possibly subpar episode that features Doctor Pulaski and Jean-Luc Picard's very limp "engage" gesture. It's a weird one!   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show)   James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram Possible Show Titles Some Unintentional Sexiness Robot Deep Cleaning Transporter Chase Star Trek Doesn't Nuke the Kids From Orbit These Disease Kids Telepathic Murder Children The Picard Method Recommendations Service Model The Expanse Series Twelve Months The Scholomance Trilogy The Golden Enclaves Links Sherlock Holmes Sherlock (2010) Young Sherlock Holmes How Did This Get Made? Murderpod Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Star Trek: The Original Series Lord of the Flies Swedish book - all the men are carriers of a disease Sector General Hospital Fallout Wall-E

    1h 44m

  7. May 22

    The Fellowship of the Ring with Taylor Bonzer and Jessie Rye

    Friend of Jeff's shows from way back, Taylor Bonzer, makes his triumphant return to podcasting to discuss this incredible film and novel series, Lord of the Rings, plus an in-depth discussion about the first forty minutes or so of Fellowship. Jessie and Jeff have a ton of questions!   If you want to hear more from Taylor Bonzer, check out his appearances on Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? as well as his many appearances as Farley Gnarts on Shattered Worlds RPG!   Direct Download Link   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show)   James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram Jessie Rye @kosmiccowgirl on Bluesky Taylor Bonzer   Taylor Bonzer on Threads Dark Circles Doodle Co. on Facebook Possible Show Titles One of the Goods I Live in the Woodwork A Lot of Glorf Fans Out There He Can Be Old and Sexy Rushing the Magic is Never a Good Idea My Yes, But to the Goblin Rollercoaster I'm a Sucker for a Dragon There's Plenty of Orcs on Both Sides Thick Tuft, Full Carpet Doctor Doolots They Started Here Recommendations The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Rings of Power A Tale for the Time-Being House of the Dragon Outlander The King of Ashes The Darkness Returns Links (I may eventually link these for real but for now you'll just have to copy-paste them by hand) Tolkien accounts on Threads:   Davidthengoldo Silmarillianne BelmontLOTR   Doctor Who Rosehaven Celia Pacquola  The Hobbit Redwall Goosebumps Ralph Bakshi's Fellowship of the Ring Animated Return of the King  The Last Unicorn Dead Alive  The Frighteners The Silmarillion Return of the Shadow Peter Jackson's stomach ulcer Doctor Strange Is a dame knighted? War of the Rohirrim Tolkien's Letter to Nazi Germany Rings of Power Game of Thrones LEGO Lord of the Rings The Color of Magic 50 First Dates Animal Crossing The Things That You Think The Chronicles of Narnia Baz Luhrman's Australia Van Helsing Moulin Rouge Gettin' Square Goldeneye Godzilla Ronin Moonraker Tomorrow Never Dies The Vicar of Dibley Robin Hood (2026) Disney's Robin Hood Master and Commander  Outlander Macbeth (2014) Doom Patrol Queen of the Damned Eastern Promises A History of Violence Hidalgo Green Book The Road Crimson Tide Carlito's Way The Sound of Music Twelve Monkeys Ian McKellen on Graham Norton The Hunt for Gollum Elizabeth Thor: Ragnarok The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Aviator Paradise Road The Monuments Men I'm Not There Ponyo Howl's Moving Castle Brazil Strangers With Candy Alien The Fifth Element Lord of War All Quiet on the Western Front Lost X-Men James Bond The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Dressmaker The Matrix V for Vendetta How to Make Gravy House of the Dragon Star Trek: Voyager The Lost World Jurassic Park: The Lost World The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement The Living Daylights Fire and Ice Pirates of the Caribbean Kingdom of Heaven Troy Blackhawk Down North The Princess Bride Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Sin City Wilfred Wilfred (Australian) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Good Son Australian/Hillbilly Feet The Legendarium Supernatural Unfinished Tales The History of Middle Earth Miss Congeniality Nicholas Holt as Tolkien Doctor Dolittle Horse Whisperer Monty Python's Flying Circus The Mighty Boosh Auntie Donna Duck Soup The Rift War The Serpent War

    2h 34m

  8. Apr 16

    Star Trek: TNG Season Two, Episode 6 "The Schizoid Man" with Sofia

    It's Star Trek: The Next Generation time again and this one's a hoot! Some lonely scientist slips inside Data so he can live forever and romance young women who he watched grow up. Get ready for some real wild behavior, folks!   Join our Discord server and get to know the fam!  https://discord.gg/vtJnpkhd   Direct Download Link   Jeff's podcasts   Shattered Worlds RPG Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ? Omniversal Escapades (Jeff's livestreaming RPG show)   James Lark (composer, podcaster) wrote the theme song for the show Licensed for show use, copyright 2024 Here's James website for all his activities:  jameslark.co.uk   Social Media   Jeff Richardson   @eljefetacoma on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram Possible Show Titles  To Know Him is to Love Him is to Know Him A Fine, Full, Dignified Beard! The Only Guy She's Ever Known Data Gets Down Funniest One So Far Recommendations Children of Time Wheel Takes with Ali and Gus Fluence This Wretched Valley Sako and the Moon Links Star Trek: Voyager Enterprise Hitchcockian Huntington's disease Alzheimer's disease Nobody gets concussions in media How It Should Have Ended The Ig Nobel Prize

    1h 37m
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